Chapter 887 Base Camp Upgrade
"Quick, drag the shark away, don't delay the next one."
Zhang Tuohai commanded a large number of refugees to carry the charred shark away.
The shark had just been dragged away when another bluefin tuna rushed ashore. Zhang Tuohai took a half step back. The long pointed mouth stopped only ten centimeters away from Zhang Tuohai. Then, the whole tuna lost power, fell heavily, and was then cooked by the flaming stone sculpture.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, take it away, don't delay the next one."
Zhang Tuohai greeted.
The animals in the sea rushed towards Zhang Tuohai one after another, but none of them could touch Zhang Tuohai's body. In the end, they were burned into roasted fish by the flaming stone sculptures on both sides.
Zhang Tuohai himself stood there without moving an inch.
He is the bait for these animals. As long as he doesn't move around, the animals in the sea will land here to catch him.
This was the trick he had to figure out after spending more than a dozen simulations.
However, this trick is only effective on the first night. After tonight, the intelligence of those beasts will be greatly improved, and this simple trick will not be effective.
This suicidal behavior continued until midnight, when a giant giant clam was roasted into a grilled scallop.
Just as the refugees were about to drag away the giant clams as they had done before, Zhang Tuohai suddenly stopped them and said, "Don't worry about that. Crack it open. There is a pearl inside. Help me find it."
Upon hearing this, the refugees immediately took out various tools and began to pry open the shells of the giant clams.
The diameter of this giant clam is two meters and eighty meters, taller than a person. If it were alive, these refugees would not be able to crack it open. However, since it had been burned to death, it was much easier. It took ten refugees ten minutes to finally crack open the shell and reveal what was inside.
The meat inside the giant clam has been roasted and exudes a meaty aroma. Inside the meat, there is a pearl as big as a basketball. The shape of this pearl is not a regular sphere, but rather like a human head.
[The head statue of the God of War: a rare item. Place it in the camp. All members’ attack power +3, morale +3.]
“A small gem in the early stage.”
Zhang Tuohai weighed the statue in his hand, took it back to the cabin and placed it in the corner.
An invisible halo swept across the entire camp, and the attacks of all characters and weapons were slightly increased, and the fighting spirit of the ten refugees was also greatly boosted.
“The effect is quite good.”
Watching the attacks gradually subside, Zhang Tuohai checked the stored stones, which were already enough to upgrade the base camp.
The reason why Zhang Tuohai did not upgrade immediately was to wait for this wave of beasts to pass.
If you upgrade before the beast tide starts, the beasts in the tide will also upgrade their levels at the same time. However, due to the number of days, the item rewards will not increase. In order to avoid unnecessary consumption, Zhang Tuohai delayed the pace. Now that the beast tide has passed, it is time to upgrade.
Zhang Tuohai had just asked the refugees to build the buildings needed for the upgrade during their spare time . Now everything is ready, only the east wind is missing.
"upgrade."
Zhang Tuohai pressed the upgrade button.
A white light enveloped the cabin, and a progress bar appeared in front of Zhang Tuohai. This time the waiting time was 3 minutes.
Let the refugees rest, Zhang Tuohai sat on the grass nearby and waited quietly.
Three minutes later, the holiday cabin turned into a two-story stone house, which looked more solid.
[The base camp has been upgraded to level 3, unlocking steel technology, and can manufacture buildings: blast furnace, steam engine, rails, steam locomotive, giant statue... Materials required to upgrade to the next level: refined steel: 500 units, coal: 500 units, ordinary buildings: 8, special buildings: 1. ]
Zhang Tuohai took a look at the construction list. There was still no automatic mining machine or the like. The equipment used by miners was still manual tools such as pickaxes and hammers, and mining could only be done by humans.
Zhang Tuohai knew that this was the method used by the game to slow down the development process - blocking resource output. If you want to quickly gather resources, you need to mobilize a large amount of manpower to mine. However, this means that you have to spend more people to ensure food supply.
However, once you consume your manpower in these two aspects, your ability to defend against the beast tide will become very weak, and your base camp will be in danger of being breached by the beast tide at any time.
Players have to balance three aspects.
Zhang Tuohai was troubled by this for a long time, and finally decided to take the mining machines and logging machines that were ahead of their time.
These machines greatly alleviated his population and food pressures, allowing him to level up three times in one day, greatly improving his progress.
Let him experience the feeling of being a krypton gold boss.
Of course, these miners, lumberjacks, and even automatic Gatling guns are far inferior to the last item brought.
Zhang Tuohai walked out of the two-story stone building, came to the beach and waited quietly.
It was high tide at this time, and the sea water continued to surge onto the beach. A supply box slowly came to a stop on the beach following the tide.
The supply box was very heavy, so Zhang Tuohai built two new refugee camps and spawned 20 new refugees. Everyone worked together to move the heavy supply box back to the stone house.
There is a thick layer of airbags on the outside of the supply box, which is made of the latest protective material. This is why it can float in the sea for half a day and remain safe and sound. Otherwise, it would have been bitten by sharks in the sea and dragged into the deep sea.
After checking and confirming that the airbag was intact, he pressed the decompression code. With a sharp exhaust sound, the floating airbag outside the supply box deflated, slowly revealing the original appearance of the supply box.
"I haven't opened a box for a long time. I really miss it." Zhang Tuohai touched the outer shell of the supply box, his face full of nostalgia.
Zhang Tuohai picked up a crowbar and knocked open the outer shell of the supply box, revealing a strange-looking machine.
This machine is composed of more than ten robotic arms and a control screen. This is the rune engraving machine that Zhang Tuohai asked Lilith to help him customize.
After dozens of simulations, Zhang Tuohai gradually discovered a problem. That is, no matter how fast he developed, he could not resist the increasingly powerful beast tide by relying solely on pure technology. Even if he could barely hold on, he would be taken away by the elite evil god army. It was not that pure technology was not good enough, but that the time was too short and the technology could not develop to the level of crushing the evil god army.
Therefore, he needs the assistance of some other technologies. This rune engraving machine is the key to his breakthrough.
This is also the reason why Zhang Tuohai would rather not bring the quantum black umbrella than bring this machine.
